Making an Autumn Statement

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Labour’s shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves reacts, after the government announces tax rises and a spending squeeze, as well as money for schools and the NHS. She’s also quizzed on what her party would do differently. Following her, host of Radio 4’s Money Box Live Adam Shaw, with maths teacher and podcast host Bobby Seagull. The two cast their expert eyes over the chancellor’s workings out. This episode of Newscast is presented by Adam Fleming and the BBC’s political editor Chris Mason. It was made by Chris Flynn and Danny Wittenberg. The editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:04.9	Chris, welcome home from Bali in the G20.
0:07.1	Oh, thank you.
0:08.0	How is your jet lag?
0:09.7	I mean, you can't complain when you get to go on a trip,
0:13.2	you know, reporting on the Prime Minister
0:14.6	to somewhere on the other side of the world,
0:16.5	but I'm jiggered.
0:18.4	Okay.
0:19.2	Now, you will have missed being a not very Christmassy place,
0:22.1	the launch of the newscast Christmas advert competition.
0:25.2	Oh, I haven't missed this.
0:26.0	Where we're getting people to suggest things
0:27.6	we could put into the first ever newscast Christmas advert,
0:30.4	which will premiere in December.
0:32.2	We'll wait.
0:33.1	And we've had some suggestions from Innocent Cambridge
0:35.0	and Liz and London who both suggested
0:36.9	a 12 days of Christmas newscast mashup.
0:39.8	This is what they came up with.
0:41.4	12 wines in a suitcase, 11% inflation, 10 fewer binders,
0:45.6	9 Adams quizzes, 8 guest presenters, 7 Christmas travels,
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